Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Driver retries disk errors. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:29:29 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 00:14, Rogier Wolff wrote: > I don't think so. It starts with the ide-cd level driver > doing 8 retries. Most disk we see retry themselves for about a > 4 second delay before reporting a bad block. A CD taking twice
"Most", that is the heart of the reason for not taking them out.
> that much would not sound abnormal. (seeks are about 10 times > as expensive on CDs). 8 times 8 seconds is a full minute.
As I said media players need a way to turn it to no retry
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